Question for Money Leagues (1 Viewer)

[Stonewall Jackson]

My buddy and I are in the process of figuring out an auction league.

How much money is typically ascribed to each team in a 16-team league with 20 roster spots?

I know that in typical rotisserie baseball it's like $260 for 20 spots in a 12-team league, but I'm new to this in football.

 

[Jeff Pasquino]

My buddy and I are in the process of figuring out an auction league.How much money is typically ascribed to each team in a 16-team league with 20 roster spots?I know that in typical rotisserie baseball it's like $260 for 20 spots in a 12-team league, but I'm new to this in football.

It could be any amount, but the more $ the longer the draft - but the nice thing about more $ is that you can get more granularity (i.e. a $1 vs a $2 player is more meaningful in a $100 budget, but less in a $500 budget).Anywhere between 200 - 300 should be fine.For sake of time (and 16 teams) I'd go with $200 and see how it works. That's $3200, and that will take about 4 hours.

 

[benbadman]

My buddy and I are in the process of figuring out an auction league.How much money is typically ascribed to each team in a 16-team league with 20 roster spots?I know that in typical rotisserie baseball it's like $260 for 20 spots in a 12-team league, but I'm new to this in football.

it really depends on how much each owner in the league is comfortable playing for, or how much they can handle.some leagues might have a buy-in / team fee of only $50. Others might be $100, or even $500 just depends who you are playing with. If your league is a bunch of salaried professionals you might feel fine with a few hundred bucks per team.If the league is you and a bunch of the partners at the downtown law firm, you big spenders might want to play for like $5000 per team.Also, some money leagues charge you for waiver & FA pickups, $1 to $5 per player (maybe more depending how pricy your league is).For a money league, also rewarding the weekly points leader (even ina head to head league, the one team that scores the most points) just give them a small cash prize.. well pay it out at the end of the season. But maybe $20, or $50 to the team that has the most points each week.. so thats 13 or 14 x that $$ amount out of the pot, maybe reward the regular season winner(s), and the rest of the pool goes to playoff winners.hope that helps.

 

[Jeff Pasquino]

My buddy and I are in the process of figuring out an auction league.How much money is typically ascribed to each team in a 16-team league with 20 roster spots?I know that in typical rotisserie baseball it's like $260 for 20 spots in a 12-team league, but I'm new to this in football.

it really depends on how much each owner in the league is comfortable playing for, or how much they can handle.some leagues might have a buy-in / team fee of only $50. Others might be $100, or even $500 just depends who you are playing with. If your league is a bunch of salaried professionals you might feel fine with a few hundred bucks per team.If the league is you and a bunch of the partners at the downtown law firm, you big spenders might want to play for like $5000 per team.Also, some money leagues charge you for waiver & FA pickups, $1 to $5 per player (maybe more depending how pricy your league is).For a money league, also rewarding the weekly points leader (even ina head to head league, the one team that scores the most points) just give them a small cash prize.. well pay it out at the end of the season. But maybe $20, or $50 to the team that has the most points each week.. so thats 13 or 14 x that $$ amount out of the pot, maybe reward the regular season winner(s), and the rest of the pool goes to playoff winners.hope that helps.

I think you're talking "entry fee", not "auction budget". Based on the title though I can see how you'd make that mistake.

 

[daveR]

We use $10 per roster slot for the auction. We don't do sal-cap. The Auction Bucks are used only for the auction. We keep track of amounts bid and force owners to retain at least $1 for each remaining roster slot. Works pretty good. And, it beats the crap out of drafts!

 

[GregR_2]

I'd suggest you decide what you want the average amount per player to be and go with that. Realize that if you have huge salaries like $2 million for 20 spots, yet allow $1 salaries, the difference between LT and a scrub might be a million dollars. A lot of people just won't like that relationship vs if LT is worth, say, $100 and the scrub is worth $1.

That also can come into play if you go keeper or dynasty. Having a $1 stud RB when they normally cost $1m is a bigger advantage than having a $1 stud RB when they normally cost $100. It also can make the end of the auction a lot more volatile when you have huge amounts since instead of everyone near the end only able to afford slightly over minimum salaries, you will have guys with a lot more money than the minimums.

FWIW my league with a hard cap uses $10 per roster spot and I'm happy with that. We have an unusually large starting lineup (26 players) and allow a min of 45 and max of 55 man rosters, so with an average of 50 spots we have a $500 cap. I think $200 for a 20 man roster and $1 minimum salaries would be a good amount and a good balance between the top price guys and the scrubs.